Robbed hit of the week 9/16/19 - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's "For Tha Love Of $"...
from the EP Creepin' On Ah Come Up (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #41
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the rap group from Cleveland, Ohio, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, who had broke through to the mainstream music scene in the fall of 1994 with their first top-40 pop hit "Thuggish Ruggish Bone". For their follow-up single, the group went financial and released "Foe Tha Love Of $", which featured a verse from their mentor, rapper Eazy-E, who also appeared in the music video right before he passed away from AIDS-related illness in March of 1995. The female vocals were done by Jewell (not the folk singer), who sang on many of Death Row Records' hits...
Although "Foe Tha Love Of $" climbed to #4 on Billboard magazine's Rap Singles chart, and peaked at #33 on their R&B genre chart, the single stalled at the dreaded #41 spot a week before Eazy-E's death in March of 1995. But by the following year, the group would go on to have their biggest album and a #1 pop single.
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And here's the group in concert with the song...
And finally, a rare clip from 1994 with Eazy-E appearing with the group...
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